An edition of Mao's last dancer (2003)

Mao's last dancer

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An edition of Mao's last dancer (2003)

Mao's last dancer

Berkley trade pbk. ed.
  • 3.3 (3 ratings) ·
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  • 3 Currently reading
  • 6 Have read

A poor child living in poverty is chosen out of millions of children to attend Madame Mao's dancing ballet. His life drastically shifted from living in poverty to studying dance.

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Publisher
Berkley Books
Language
English
Pages
451

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2008, Walker & Co.
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Mao's Last Dancer
July 6, 2006, Penguin
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Mao's last dancer
2005, Berkley Books
in English - Berkley trade pbk. ed.
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Mao's last dancer
2004, Putnam
in English
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Mao's last dancer
2003, Viking
in English
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Mao's last dancer
2003, Fusion Press, Fusion
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Table of Contents

Part one: My childhood
1. Home
2. My Niang and Dia
3. A commune childhood
4. The seven of us
5. Na-na
6. Chairman Mao's classroom
7. Leaving home
Part two: Beijing
8. Feather in a whirlwind
9. The caged bird
10. That first lonely year
11. The pen
12. My own voice
13. Teacher Xio's words
14. Turning points
15. The mango
16. Change
17. On the way to the West
18. The filthy capitalist America
19. Good-bye, China
Part 3: The West
20. Return to the land of freedom
21. Elizabeth
22. Defection
23. My new life
24. A millet dream come true
25. No more nightmares
26. Russia
27. Mary
28. Going home
29. Back in my village
30. Another wedding: Qingdao, 1988.

Edition Notes

Originally published: New York : Putnam, c2003.

Published in
New York
Genre
Biography.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
792.8/092, B
Library of Congress
GV1785.L475 A3 2005

The Physical Object

Pagination
xvii, 451 p. :
Number of pages
451

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL16360118M
Internet Archive
maoslastdancer0000licu_m1w3
ISBN 10
0425201333
ISBN 13
9780425201336
OCLC/WorldCat
59006520
Library Thing
71622
Goodreads
298137

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